King James Version (KJV)
Job 24:18
“He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.”
Verse in context — Job 24
16
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17
For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
18
He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
20
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
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